Quotes About Education

Teachers who are accountable to principals who are, in turn, accountable to school communities are likely to be more professionally 'grounded' and less susceptible to avant garde fashions in curriculum and pedagogy. School

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An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

In baseball, we count everything," Babe said. "Baseball's a math teacher's dream for teaching kids arithmetic. It's numbers and statistics. It's long division and decimals. I

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

really think I could learn anything about that diamond

Our society doesn't have the proper respect for magna cum laude

Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

If the people would bother to learn about the cultures instead of condemning them, they might not be afraid.

When her father had taught her to fly, he hadn't expected her to take to it so strongly. She knew this because he'd told her as much. He wanted her to be serious and concentrate on her schooling. Focus on being a duster for his groves. The fancy flying, the dips and twists and turns . . . it had never been important to anyone but her. And maybe Calix, who knew how much she loved being in the sky.

Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative--or preservative--one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit.